Category: Writer’s Desk

  • Tending the Flame: 3 Ways to Stay Inspired with Your Writing

    Tending the Flame: 3 Ways to Stay Inspired with Your Writing

     “I only write when I’m inspired, so I see to it that I’m inspired every morning at nine o’clock.” ~ Peter De Vries When we talk to writers about inspiration, we usually want to know about their ideas. What sparks your stories? Where do your ideas come from? What made you think to use that setting…

  • People in A Story: How Book Characters Teach Us to Love Well

    People in A Story: How Book Characters Teach Us to Love Well

    “I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.” ― G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America Loving characters…